From: Tor Arntsen Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:10:18 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Makefile: Turn off the configure target by default Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4CB41D50.9020208@drmicha.warpmail.net> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:33, Michael J Gruber wrote: [configure etc] > That thread was just the hair-trigger, so to say, there were many others > in the past. But it's very typical. We often have "Don't use configure - > it's second class"-type answers to build problems. I don't really > remember that many "I use configure, and it works here"-type answers. > > Given the vigorous defense showing up here against deprecating configure > (in the sense of declaring it second class), we can all be confident > that there will be many knowledgeable and helpful answers to build > problems for configure users, right? At the moment './configure; make' works better than just 'make' on Tru64 and AIX platforms. I have patches somewhere to improve just 'make' on those platforms but I haven't gotten around to post them yet (need some polishing, or at least re-check against current .git). One reason I figured it's no hurry is that ./configure actually takes care of things there for now. (The series posted by Gary from The Written Word, and mostly included by now I think, was mainly based on TWW using configure on all platforms btw. IIRC.) -Tor